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el 11-Sep-2008 |  Apple (AAPL) boss Steve Jobs trotted out his company's new iPod lineup and an update to its iTunes software this week. Missing from his presentation: Any word on new Mac laptops, which some observers and investors had been expecting.
Why now? Apple's notebook line is getting old: According to MacRumors' excellent Mac buyer's guide, it's been 198 days since Apple updated the MacBook or the MacBook Pro, which, on average, get updates every 192-194 days. So both series are due for an upgrade, likely including new Intel chips, and potentially new, metal cases for MacBooks, which are currently plastic. It's also possible Apple will slice a few hundred dollars off some of its laptops to boost sales.
When will this happen? Street analysts now expect Apple to announce new MacBooks in October or November. Daring Fireball blogger John Gruber -- who's as connected to the Apple backchannel as anyone -- says Oct. 14 is the date, specifically. Sounds plausible to us.
Why is this important? Because Apple's Mac business has recently been driving the bulk of Apple's growth, now that iPod growth has slowed significantly, and as iPhone growth ramps up. We now know that new Macs probably won't play a role in Apple's September quarter. But any boost Apple can get from new Macs in the December quarter will be very helpful.
In the meantime, we've recently been asked by several people if they should bother waiting for the new MacBooks, or take the plunge now. With upgrades imminent -- possibly a month away -- we'd wait if it were our money. But we don't expect the updates to be revolutionary: definitely faster, potentially sleeker, maybe cheaper, possibly a few new toys -- but still a laptop. Sort of like the difference between the old iPod nano and the new iPod nano -- looks better, a bit more capacity, but nothing major. So if you need a new computer today, go for it.
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(InfoWorld) | | InfoWorld - Macs are immune from security threats, right? It's Windows we have to worry about. That water-cooler wisdom needs to be flipped on its head, security experts and IT managers warn. Microsoft has gotten its security act together with Vista and its current security-response program; meanwhile, Apple is fast becoming the company most in [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 14-Jul-2008 by Nerdblog in General
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| Europe Getting Crisis Core PSP Bundle This Month [Limited Edition] | | Poor, put upon Europe. You either had to pay exorbitant prices to import a Japanese or North American version of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII or simply wait patiently for the game's release on your continent on the 20th of this month. Well SCEE feels your p [..] Read complete article | | Published 10-Jun-2008 by Mike Fahey in Limited edition crisis core: final fantasy vii Europe News PSP Scee Square Enix
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| Ding! Majesco serves up more Cooking Mama for Wii |  Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Casual
While we wait (and wait, and wait ... ) for an official Iron Chef game (maybe if we clap our hands and click our heels it'll happen?) there's a new entree on the cooking game menu fro [..] Read complete article | | Published 01-Jul-2008 by Randy Nelson in cooking-mamacooking-mama-world-kitchenmajesco
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| Wait For Next Fallout Won't Be Too Long [Fallout 3] | | The wait between Fallout 2 and Fallout 3 was way too long, Eight years too long, in fact. So will we have to wait close to another decade to get our hands on, say, Fallout 4? Speaking to Reuters, Todd Howard, executive producer at Bethesda Softworks, discu [..] Read complete article | | Published 23-Oct-2008 by Jim Reilly in Fallout 3 Bethesda Fallout
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